Pemberton Twp Water - New Lisbon, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Pemberton Twp Water - New Lisbon serves about 500 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Burlington County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ0329001; phone on file: 609-894-3303. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pemberton Twp Water - New Lisbon is 2.41 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.41 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.4 ppb |
Against other New Jersey systems
Of the 605 New Jersey systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 52 have gone over at some point. Pemberton Twp Water - New Lisbon's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in New Jersey and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
45 other systems share Burlington County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pemberton Twp Water - New Lisbon. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nj American Water - Mount Holly | 47,427 | 0 (not detected) |
| Evesham Mua | 45,538 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mt Laurel Twp Mua | 41,743 | 1.8 ppb |
| Willingboro Mua | 35,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Burlington Twp W Dept | 27,000 | 3.81 ppb |
| Moorestown Water Dept | 20,700 | 2 ppb |
| Maple Shade Water Department | 19,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Medford Twp Dept Of Muni | 17,272 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bordentown Water Departm | 15,821 | 2.19 ppb |
| Jbmdl-Dix Main System | 12,765 | 0.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pemberton, NJ may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Pemberton Twp Water - New Lisbon whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.